Todd E. Mlsna

In February of 2003 Dr. Mlsna co-founded Seacoast Science, Inc., where he was President and CTO. Dr. Mlsna’s work has been presented at scientific conferences and published in journals and books on numerous occasions. While at Seacoast he has won several grants from government agencies including the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security for the development of chemical microsensors.

Dr. Mlsna graduated with a B.S. from Albion College in Albion, Michigan in 1985, and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin, in 1991. Both degrees were in chemistry. His graduate work focused on synthetic organic fluorine chemistry, as did his postdoctoral work at Clemson University.

From 1994 to 1998 Dr. Mlsna worked at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), Washington, DC, on the development of absorbent polymer-film-based chemical sensors. While working at NRL his paper ‘Aromatic Fluoroalcohol Coatings for Chemical Warfare Agent Detection’ won Best Paper at the International Sensor Conference in Beijing in 1998 and his work on pulsed laser deposition of polymer films won recognition in 2000 as one of the year’s best patent applications.

In 1998 he joined Sensor Research and Development Corporation where he continued his work on chemical sensor development as Director of Analytical Chemistry. He held the position of Senior Staff Scientist at Graviton from 2000 to February 2003 where he developed polymer formulations for Graviton’s volatile organic compound sensor system.

Dr. Mlsna joined the chemistry faculty at Mississippi State University in 2009.